November 1, 2007
Habiliments, noun
Clothing, especially for a particular purpose; equipment, fittings
"Mate," wondered Nipper, a little tentatively. "Why - in the name of all things holy - are you wearing a shroud?"
"Basically," said Zeds, "because I've a conducted slightly more thorough research than I did yesterday, and as a result I've discovered that those little pink sleeping tablets of which last night I had not one, but two, and indeed as a result slept like the proverbial baby, albeit one with apparently no intention of ever waking up again, like, ever, if not for the intervention of a truck bumping into a skip outside this morning around the ungodly hour of 9am, some ten whole slumbering hours after I'd necked them, are not, in fact, the Ambien I thought they were."
"Er, right. So what are they?"
"Well, according to the packet, they're Moxinax-0.5. Don't bothering looking it up - it's all in Thai."
"So?"
"So there's no such thing, at least in English. Or so I thought."
"Ah. So where does that leave you?"
"With Google, basically."
"And you Googled Moxinax?"
"Oh yes, I Googled. But not Moxinax. That's the brand. No, I Googled alprazolam, the ingredient."
"Can we get to the point? I'd quite fancy a pint at some stage in this lifetime."
"Okay. Here's my point. Turns out I've been using Xanax to get to sleep."
"And that's a bad thing?"
"Yes."
